Locking pegboard

Abstract

The present invention provides a pegboard-type organization system for articles to be displayed or secured in-place. The pegs can be locked onto the board to support either a weight placed thereon or a side-ways pressure applied thereto. The support can be either rigid or elastic, depending on whether gripping or load-bearing functionality is required. The inventive system allows a board to be flush-mounted to a support surface, and thereby avoids the wasted space conventionally taken up with such substructures as fir strips.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This non-provisional patent application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 246,549, filed Sep. 29, 2009, which is incorporated herein by reference in entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention relates to organizers for objects, and more particularly to pegboard displays for tools and the like.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]A commonly used pegboard is one made of fiberboard which has small round holes for receiving various wire hanger configurations. Because the fiberboard is a relatively soft material, particularly when damp, the small round holes can become damaged or gored out. Alternatively, they can become filled in, as when clogged with paint. When several boards are joined to form an extended layout, the holes frequently loose register at seams. The appearance of the fiberboard pegboard, generally speaking, suffers from a lack of pleasing uniformity. Furthermore, a backing structure is required, such a...

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Benefits of technology

[0012]It is a further object of the present invention to lock the pegs in place to prevent unintended dislocation.

[0016]It is a further object of the present invention to eliminate any need for a gap between the board and a surface on which it is placed or mounted.

[0018]It is a further object of the present invention to allow close spacing of the pegs.

Problems solved by technology

Because the fiberboard is a relatively soft material, particularly when damp, the small round holes can become damaged or gored out.

Alternatively, they can become filled in, as when clogged with paint.

The appearance of the fiberboard pegboard, generally speaking, suffers from a lack of pleasing uniformity.

It can support the weight of an article hanging vertically, but a force from any other direction would tend to disengage it.

It cannot serve to fixture a layout of articles in a horizontal attitude, for example.

The dangling appendage, furthermore, makes close spacing difficult for small articles or dense layouts.

The bilateral extension of the “T” resists forces bearing on the peg in the two directions parallel to the crossbar, but is relatively ineffective for directions approaching the perpendicular.

Similar to Solheim, the fixture generates support in only two primary directions and lacks a means for registering an optimal rotation angle for the crossbar.

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